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Labor committee advances bill to measure worker misclassification, sends SF2360 to Taxes
Summary
The Senate Labor Committee on March 27 approved an author's amendment and recommended Senate File 2360, which would require a biannual measurement of employer misclassification fraud and allow the Department of Labor and Industry to contract with external experts to produce the study.
The Minnesota Senate Labor Committee on March 27 approved an author’s amendment and recommended Senate File 2360, a bill that would direct state agencies to measure the prevalence and fiscal impact of worker misclassification and to report on it on a recurring basis.
The bill’s sponsor described misclassification fraud as the illegal treatment of employees as independent contractors. “Misclassification fraud is when an employer illegally treats a worker as an independent contractor, when they should be an employee,” the sponsor said, adding that employees misclassified in that way lose minimum wage, overtime, unemployment insurance, workers’ compensation and other protections.
The measure would require a biannual report…
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